Todd Harding — a 30-year-old political appointee at the Energy Department — applied for and won a post this month at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. There, he told colleagues in a Nov. 12 e-mail, he will work on “space-based science using satellites for geostationary and meteorological data.” Harding earned a bachelor’s degree in government from Kentucky’s Centre College, where he also chaired the Kentucky Federation of College Republicans.

Also this month, Erik Akers, the congressional relations chief for the Drug Enforcement Administration, gained a permanent post at the agency after being denied a lower-level career appointment late last year.

And in mid-July, Jeffrey T. Salmon, who has a doctorate in world politics and was a speechwriter for Vice President Cheney when he served as defense secretary, had been selected as deputy director for resource management in the Energy Department’s Office of Science. In that position, he oversees decisions on its grants and budget.

Comrade PhysioProf has commented on this depraved behavior by the Bush regime before:

Huge numbers of competent experts have been shitcanned, and replaced by ignorant fucking douchehounds trained at wackaloon right-wing theocratic brainwashing facilities like “Regent University” and “Liberty University”. All the experts who knew how to get shit done, to obey the Constitution, Federal laws, and Federal regulations while doing things like protecting us from crime, dangerous food, dangerous products, keeping us from being blown to smithereens by terrorists, keeping us healthy, safe, and prosperous, have been eliminated. They have been replaced by people who can’t even tie their own motherfucking shoes, but who have drank the “government can’t do shit” right-wing sick-fuck Kool-Aid, and are deadset on proving it!

The Federal beauracracy is now absolutely riddled with bottom-feeding Republican hackfucks, and not only are they incompetent, but they are vicious and hateful, and they won’t be easily rooted out. If a Democrat takes over the executive branch in January 2009, it ain’t gonna be unicorns and fucking rainbows. It is going to be a difficult, drawn-out, nasty process of identifying these viciously incompetent America-hating right-wing follower moles, getting rid of them, and replacing them with competent experts who actually give a shit about America and the well-being of its citizens.

The burrowing down has been going on for years. Back in about 2004 the agency I worked for at the time (the National Park Service) was told that any hire that was a GS-12 or above had to be approved by the Washington office, which everyone knew was code for “must be a Republican.” It’s going to take many years to undo the damage the Bushites did to the civil service.

I don’t even want to think about the damage that’s been done to the Large Nameless Agency where I now work — although the Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting the Director could be gone as soon as January, so morale is picking up.

Due to civil service protections these miscreants can’t be fired. But they can be transferred. Find an empty gov owned office building and fill it with nothing but worn out desks and chairs. No computers. No wifi. Transfer them all there. No duties, nothing what so ever to do. When they don’t show up for work from sheer boredom, fire their sorry asses. Legally.